Orations and letters from ms. Stresa, Archivio Storico dell’Istituto della Carità, Codici di Santa Giustina, no. 2

Bartolomeo Miniatore; Cristiano Amendola

Orations and letters from ms. Stresa, Archivio Storico dell’Istituto della Carità, Codici di Santa Giustina, no. 2

Authors

Bartolomeo Miniatore

University of Naples Federico II

Cristiano Amendola

KU Leuven

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9146-2224

Keywords:

Bartolomeo Miniatore, Vernacula Humanism, Humanistic Rhetoric, Epistolart models, Orations

Synopsis

Series: Digital Humanities, 11

Language: Early Italian vernacular

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-45-5

Abstract: Critical and digital edition of the corpus of oratorical and epistolary texts connected with the treatise work of Bartolomeo Miniatore (ca. 1420–1485), transmitted by ms. Archivio Storico dell’Istituto della Carità, Codici di Santa Giustina, no. 2. This is the third stage of the project for a complete critical edition of Miniatore’s production of model orations (parlamenti) and letters, as well as complete letters by the Ferrarese schoolmaster and humanist, and the second instalment to be realised in a digital environment, in continuity with the previous edition already published by BUP. The manuscript, autograph and datable to 1465, does not transmit an autonomous formulary: the sixteen texts are in fact interspersed with lyric poems and pieces of a more popular tone, mostly vernacular religious compositions. Particular emphasis is placed on two letters by Orsolina, wife of Bartolomeo, addressed to Teofilo Calcagnini and Bianca Maria d’Este, which reveal a conscious attempt to gain access to the higher circles of Ferrarese patronage after the couple’s return to the city in 1465.

The edition is encoded in XML-TEI, enriched with Linked Open Data, and published online by means of EVT (Edition Visualization Technology).

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Author Biographies

Bartolomeo Miniatore, University of Naples Federico II

Bartolomeo di Benincà, better known as Bartolomeo Miniatore (Ferrara, c. 1420 – ?, 1478-1485), was a schoolmaster, writer of treatises and illuminator active between Ferrara, Bologna and Venice in the second and third quarters of the fifteenth century. From his hand there survives a substantial corpus of highly successful collections of epistolary models, both in manuscript and in print.

Cristiano Amendola, KU Leuven

Cristiano Amendola is Research Associate at KU Leuven. He graduated in Modern Literature and Modern Philology from the University of Naples “Federico II” and holds two PhDs: the first obtained in 2018 from the Université de Liège and the second completed in 2022 at the Università della Basilicata. He has been involved in several international projects, serving as a digital fellow for Early Modern Letters Online, the database of the Cultures of Knowledge project (University of Oxford), as digital editor of Giorgio Vasari’s letters for the EpistolART project (Université de Liège), and as an associate research fellow for the SKILLNET project (Utrecht University).